. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . WHERE FELL THE BRAVEDEDICATING THE MONUMENT AT BULL RUN, ON JUNE 10, 1865 Tliis shall was erected by the officers and men of General William Gambles Separate Cavalry Brigade,stationed a1 Fairfax Court House during the preceding winter and spring. It is twenty-seven feel high,made of chocolate-colored sandstone, and bears on its top a 100-pound shell. The sin Us on the pedestals ateach comer are of similar size. The inscription reads—To the memory of the patriots who f
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . WHERE FELL THE BRAVEDEDICATING THE MONUMENT AT BULL RUN, ON JUNE 10, 1865 Tliis shall was erected by the officers and men of General William Gambles Separate Cavalry Brigade,stationed a1 Fairfax Court House during the preceding winter and spring. It is twenty-seven feel high,made of chocolate-colored sandstone, and bears on its top a 100-pound shell. The sin Us on the pedestals ateach comer are of similar size. The inscription reads—To the memory of the patriots who fell at HullRim, -Inly .1. L861. The dedicatory exercises were conducted by the Rev. Dr. McCurdy, who read anappropriate service. After the singing of a special hymn for the occasion, the Fifth Pennsylvania HeavyArtillery executed a military parade and the Sixteenth Massachusetts Battery fired a salute. Judge appears in white trousers and high hat. next delivered an eloquent address, and was followed by severalgenerals. A little later in the dav a second monument, was dedicated on the field 01 Second Mull NOT IN ANGER, NOT IX PRIDE Dedication of First Hull Run Monument, June 10, 1865 A little more than a month before Lowell read his lofty ode fur the sonsof Harvard who had fallen in the Civil War, the group here preserved 1>.\ the camera assembled to do honor to the dear martyrs whofell in the first great battle of the conflict The site was on the hillside in front of the stone house, at the spot where on the afternoonof . 1861, Ricketts and Griffin lost their batteries In thai battle the Federal forces had been entirely successful until earijin the afternoon. Then the !onfederates rallied on the brow of this hill, and the ground on which these nun and women are gathered was the see f a fierce struggle. The batteries wen- alternately captured by the Confederates and retaken by the Union forces. until the arrival of fresh troops in gray threw the Federa
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